Sunday, October 30, 2011

La brouette de jardin


This beautifully handpainted (inside and out) cart is used to carry watering cans and other tools to the graves at Cimetière de Passy.  The French always seem to find a way to turn function into art!
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14 comments:

  1. ADEEYAOctober 30, 2011 at 2:40:00 AM CDT

    Reflection?

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  2. martinealisonOctober 30, 2011 at 3:01:00 AM CDT

    Une manière d'embellir la dernière demeure...
    gros bisous

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  3. MalyssOctober 30, 2011 at 4:25:00 AM CDT

    Yes,of course! why should usual and useful things be ugly?!
    Have a nice sunday!

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  4. Leif HagenOctober 30, 2011 at 7:42:00 AM CDT

    The more artsy fartsy the better, non?!
    Bonne anniversaire encore un fois, V de B!

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  5. MOctober 30, 2011 at 8:06:00 AM CDT

    How true --- why should the functional be mundane when you can make it beautiful and unique!

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  6. Genie -- Paris and BeyondOctober 30, 2011 at 10:00:00 AM CDT

    Very different from our wheelbarrows in design and I love the "garden art" displayed on the sides. As Adeeya suggested, it almost looks like a reflection.

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  7. Paris PaulOctober 30, 2011 at 10:47:00 AM CDT

    Great angle for the photo, V! Lovely.

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  8. PerthDailyPhotoOctober 30, 2011 at 11:27:00 AM CDT

    What Malyss said Virginia. How clever of you to spot and capture this image.

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  9. Castles Crowns and CottagesOctober 30, 2011 at 11:42:00 AM CDT

    AGAIN...leave it to the French...AND..your little Parisian girl is going in the mail TODAY at my local supermarché post office!!!! Anita

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  10. StarmanOctober 30, 2011 at 1:02:00 PM CDT

    Nice.

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  11. AlexaOctober 30, 2011 at 4:34:00 PM CDT

    Some would leave it plain, some would paint the outside only—but leave it to les français to embellish it on the inside too. Nice capture, V!

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  12. DianneOctober 30, 2011 at 7:33:00 PM CDT

    It's so pretty - now who but the French would think to paint their water cart so delicately?

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  13. OwenOctober 30, 2011 at 10:00:00 PM CDT

    This may be the obvious French remark, but shucks :

    Chouette la brouette !!!

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  14. OwenOctober 30, 2011 at 10:03:00 PM CDT

    PS, I finally got around this weekend to seeing Michael Moore's movie "Sicko"... have you seen that ? The scenes in Paris were interesting... going around with SOS Medecins, and observing how the French work to live, and not vice versa, vacation time and all. So even in their graveyards they pursue the ethic of quality of life, or should we say, quality of death afterwards?

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